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Imperva brings Discovery and Assessment Services to Australia

New service aims to help enterprises greatly mitigate the risk of a serious data breach

09 December, 2009 17:13

<p>SYDNEY, December 9. Imperva, the Data Security leader, today announced the availability of Imperva’s Discovery and Assessment Services (DAS) in Australia.</p><p>This service helps companies to overcome a major obstacle towards achieving rock-solid data security—finding and cataloguing all potentially sensitive data inside an organisation’s IT environment so data can be protected.</p><p>With this service, “organisations will be able to find where all their valuable data is stored so they can protect it,” said Stree Naidu, VP of Asia Pacific &amp; Japan at Imperva. Not knowing where data resides is a major problem that leads to data breaches. According to a 2008 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report across 500 cases, in 90 per cent of the breaches the compromised system was unknown to the organisation and/or the organisation didn’t realise the type of data it contained.</p><p>The DAS offering consists of four essential features:</p><p>• Mapping databases on the network: Applications and databases are scattered throughout the network. Accurately mapping where databases are located is the first step in assessing governance and compliance risk. Imperva’s rigorous scanning process will map all databases on the network and surface ‘rogue’ databases.</p><p>• Identifying where sensitive data lives: Locating sensitive data, such as credit card and social security numbers, as well as other personally identifiable information, can be a daunting task for IT organisations. Imperva’s automated classification process will highlight well-known and custom sensitive data types, and track their location down to the database object, row and column.</p><p>• Vulnerability assessment: Comprehensive assessment of platform, software, and configuration vulnerabilities helps assess the risk to databases that host sensitive data. The assessment results in a set of detailed reports documenting vulnerabilities that may put databases at risk. The reports further provide specific recommendations for mitigating or eliminating these vulnerabilities.</p><p>• Data risk analysis: The combined analysis of identified vulnerabilities and sensitive data enables educated decision making. In the final phase of the engagement, Imperva’s team will provide a complete report of the risk associated with each data asset based on data sensitivity and the level of platform and database exposure. Risk-centric prioritisation is the guideline for managing risk reduction efforts.</p><p>“These essential technologies and services will ensure that no government or private enterprise need worry about finding and protecting their important, confidential data. By employing DAS, companies will greatly mitigate their odds of a significant breach,” said Naidu.</p><p>About ImpervaImperva, the Data Security leader, enables a complete security lifecycle for business databases and the applications that use them. Over 4,500 of the world’s leading enterprises, government organisations, and managed service providers rely on Imperva to prevent sensitive data theft, protect against data breaches, secure applications, and ensure data confidentiality. The award-winning Imperva SecureSphere is the only solution that delivers full activity monitoring from the database to the accountable application user and is recognised for its overall ease of management and deployment. For more information, visit www.imperva.com.</p><p>Media queries</p><p>Grenadine LauImpervaPhone: +65.6749 4482Mobile: +65.9666 1886Email: Grenadine.Lau@Imperva.com</p><p>David FrostPR Deadlines Pty Ltd, for ImpervaPhone: +61.2.4341 5021Mobile: +61 (0) 408 408 210Email: davidf@prdeadlines.com.au</p>

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